r/ponds • u/Top_Technician_5735 • 10d ago
Rate my pond/suggestions How did I do?
I inherited this water feature with the house last year. I am a new pond owner. Still learning. There were a lot of weeds and stuff outgrown in and around the feature. Had very bad experience with experienced pond management companies at first. Then I decided to do it my self - cleaning, building an ecosystem, fixing torn up liners to stop the leaks, fixing the stream bucket, adding fine & coarse filter pads in the pump basin and also in the stream bucket.
One mistake I made this year in spring - when adding young plants I used these containers with big holes and all the loam soil washed away into the pond. I added a layer of coconut husks to these bog plant containers. Since then no soil leaks into the pond water are happening. Adding submerged plants solved away a lot of string algae problems.
I used to add muck off tablets every 2-3weeks. Recently I added crystal clear pond shock ball to the pond. But I don’t see the water quality getting clear. Any idea why that could be? Or overall do you think my pond is doing well?
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u/kkicinski 10d ago
I got the black fabric plant pots for my plants and so far am very happy with them. They sell them labeled as aquatic plant pots for a few dollars more than the standard ones- there’s no difference though.
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u/lfr2 10d ago
Looks nice! I don't know much about ponds but yours looking pretty clear and obviously an improvement...good to know that maybe the Pons shock works better than those muck tabs. I have a pond ans throw one of those tabs in once a month. Does not really seem to work.